"In perhaps the most well-timed accident in the history of hacking, one user, known only by his Twitter handle "@MalwareTech", significantly and unintentionally slowed down the attack in an effort to simply track its progress.

In the U.S., President Donald Trump appointed his homeland security adviser, Thomas P. Bossert, to coordinate a response. The company said in a statement that their Windows-based systems were "experiencing interference" due to malware and that it was trying to fix the issue as quickly as possible.

Chinese local authorities from traffic police to industry regulators were hobbled on Monday by a massive global ransomware attack, but the spread of the WannaCry worm in the country appeared less aggressive than initially feared. Bossert acknowledged that "attribution is difficult" at this point. "We have reached a turning point where it is not sustainable for governments to think they can retain vulnerabilities for very long", said Ari Schwartz, who oversaw technology security issues at the National Security Council during the Obama administration.

Because the attack occurred on Friday, right before people left their offices and went home for the weekend, many computers weren't affected because they simply weren't in use. The organisation said there was no indication that data or information relating to the trust was affected in the cyber-attack.

"T$3 his attack demonstrates the degree to which cybersecurity has become a shared responsibility between tech companies and customers", Smith said in his blog post.

"The recent attack is at an unprecedented level and will require a complex global investigation to identify the culprits", said Europol, Europe's police agency.

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At a hospital in Norfolk, eastern England, staff were told on Monday they could still only view x-rays in one room, while pharmacy services were being restricted as computer systems were upgraded. This worldwide ransomware attack was perpetrated through the Windows operating system, meaning that only PCs were affected.

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"This attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem", Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said in a blog post on Sunday, comparing the recent leaks of NSA and Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools to, in the real world, the theft of cruise missiles. If you are running a Windows machine and you haven't updated it yet, you should do so immediately. Two security firms - Kaspersky Lab and Avast - said they had identified the malicious software behind the attack in over 70 countries, although both said the attack had hit Russian Federation the hardest. You can also specify the schedule that Windows follows to install updates on your computer.

'Every institution, every consumer, every student with a laptop should make sure that their system is fully patched, ' she said.

Cheryl McNulty and Scott Wright welcomed their daughters into the world on Saturday morning as NHS Lanarkshire was battling to contain the damage to its IT system caused by hackers.

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